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Possible signature of distant foreground in the Planck data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-10-23 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

By using the Planck map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation we have checked and confirmed the existence of a correlation between supernova (SN) redshifts, zSNz_{\rm SN}, and CMB temperature fluctuations at the SNe locations, TSNT_{\rm SN}, which we previously reported for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. The Pearson correlation coefficient for the Planck data is r=+0.38±0.08r=+0.38\pm 0.08 which indicates that the correlation is statistically significant (the signal is about 5σ5\sigma above the noise level). The correlation becomes even stronger for the type Ia subsample of SNe, rIa=+0.45±0.09r_{\rm Ia}=+0.45\pm 0.09, whereas for the rest of the SNe it is vanishing. By checking the slopes of the regression lines TSN/zSNT_{\rm SN} / z_{\rm SN} for Planck's different frequency bands we have also excluded the possibility of this anomaly being caused by the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. The remaining possibility is some, unaccounted for, contribution to the CMB from distant (z>0.3z>0.3) foreground through either the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect or thermal emission from intergalactic matter.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5814,
  title  = {Possible signature of distant foreground in the Planck data},
  author = {V. N. Yershov and V. V. Orlov and A. A. Raikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5814},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables